SMPID vs. INPID

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Sat, 12 May 2007, RayJ wrote:

> This is what fix it!
> service MailScanner stop
> service sendmail stop <-- Important!

These are actions on the running services. If you do nothing they will 
start up again as configured after a reboot or even a change of init 
level.

> Not sure these had any effect, but tried anyway!
> chkconfig --del mailscanner
> chkconfig --del sendmail
> chkconfig --add sendmail
> chkconfig --add mailscanner

These do the other thing. They have an impact on wether or not services 
are started at certain runlevels.

So, If one is to add MailScanner to Centos environment with sendmail 
support and sendmail is active (default Centos MTA) you would need to do:

  1. Install MailScanner (and subsidaries) ((And make sure you configure it
     right but do not activae it now!))
  2. Stop sendmail `service sendmail stop`
  3. Prevent sendmail from starting again `chkconfig sendmail off`
  4. Activate MailScanner `service mailScanner start`
  5. Make sure MailScanner starts at boot time `chkconfig MailScanner on`

At your discretion you can replace sendmail with postfix if that happens 
to be the active MTA of your choice.

For more details on runlevels, and the use of the service and chkconfig 
tools please consult the manual in a document repository near you.

Hugo.

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